CANDIDATE SCHOOL AT QUANTICO. THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER APPEARS TO HAVE DIED FROM A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. Rhonda: AND HERE, CLOSER TO HOME, A TRAGEDY IN SOUTHGATE, A COMMUNITY SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS, TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY A TEENAGER WOULD TAKE HIS OWN LIFE. Shawn: 13-YEAR-OLD TYLER SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF IN THE SCHOOL BATHROOM. AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, MORE THAN 400 STUDENTS, FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, CROWDED THE SCHOOL TO HONOR TYLER NICHOLAS. STUNNED BY THE OUTCOME OF IT. WHAT MADE HIM THINK TO DO IT AT SCHOOL, AND WHAT DROVE HIM TO THAT? IT'S HORRIBLE! Shawn: WE'VE LEARNED THE STUDENT GOT A GUN FROM A FAMILY MEMBER BUT RIGHT NOW NO WORD ON WHICH FAMILY MEMBER THAT GUN CAME FROM. . Rhonda: AND THAT TRAGEDY IS HAVING A RIPPLE EFFECT. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT ACROSS MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD. Shawn: AND SHAKING UP PARENTS THIS MORNING. MANY WILL WONDER WHAT WILL CHANGE. AND WE'LL TURN TO OUR LAUREN PODELL WHO IS LIVE THIS MORNING. Lauren: SHAWN AND RHONDA, GOOD MORNING! WE THOUGHT THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS STORY TO COVER BECAUSE SO MANY DISTRICTS ACROSS THE STATE AND IN THE METRO AREA ARE ASKING, WHAT CAN WE DO TO PREVENT SOMETHING LIKE THIS FROM HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOL. THE FAMILIES ARE WAKING UP DEALING WITH TRAGEDY. THE SCHOOL IS CLOSED FOR STUDENTS, STAFF IS SCHEDULED TO REPORT AND WILL BE GREETED WITH GRIEF COUNSELORS AND ALSO WILL BE GREETED BY CHANGE TO THE DISTRICT. THE SOUTHGATE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS MAKING CHANGES IMMEDIATELY. THE SUPERINTENDENT TELLS LOCAL 4, STUDENTS WILL HAVE TO CARRY BOOKS OUTSIDE OF A BAG WHILE TEACHERS WILL BE INSTRUCTED TO SEARCH THEIR BACKPACKS, EVEN WEARING BULKY CLOTHES NOW BANNED. COULD SOMETHING HAVE BEEN DONE TO PREVENT THE EIGHTH-GRADER FROM TAKING HIS OWN LIFE? IT'S THE QUESTIONS THEY'RE ASKING THEMSELVES. WE PRACTICE LOCKDOWNS AND SAFETY PROCEDURES, AND AGAIN HOPEFULLY THAT WILL NEVER -- UNFORTUNATELY NEVER HAVE THAT HAPPEN IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. Lauren: THE NEWS WAS WELL KNOWN AT AN EDUCATORS CONFERENCE AT COBO CENTER. THEY CONSIDER THIS A WAKE-UP CALL. I USED TO WORK IN THE DISTRICT OR AREA WHERE THEY HAD METAL DETECTORS. IN MY DISTRICT, I DON'T THINK WE'RE AT THAT POINT. I'M NOT SURE IF A LOT OF PEOPLE WANNA GO TO THAT POINT. Lauren: THIS IS CERTAINLY A TRAGEDY THAT WILL HAVE SCHOOLS LOOKING AT DIFFERENT PLANS AS THEY MOVE AHEAD. OUT HERE THIS MORNING, YOU CAN SEE BALLOONS, FLOWERS, TEDDY BEARS LAY OUT HERE IN FRONT OF DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOL TO HONOR THE LIFE OF 13-YEAR-OLD TYLER NICHOLS. WHILE SCHOOLS WILL BE LOOKING AT PREVENTION PLANS, PARENTS WILL

SOUTHGATE, Mich. -

The Southgate School District is quickly making security changes following Thursday's suicide of 13-year-old Tyler Nichols who shot and killed himself in the bathroom of Davidson Middle School.

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Schools across the area are making some of the same changes in hopes of avoiding another young life getting taken away too soon.

Remembering Tyler

More than 400 students, family and friends crowded around Southgate Anderson High school Thursday night in honor of Tyler Nichols.

The mourners did a lap around the school to honor Tyler before gathering on the front lawn of the high school for a prayer. Soon after the prayer was complete, Amber Sorich, Nichols' sister, came forward to thank everyone for showing their support.

"I just want to thank everyone for supporting us and being there for us during this tragedy," Sorich told the crowd.

The entire education community in Southgate is heartsick over what has happened. Fellow middle school students can’t understand why Nichols felt so isolated and so depressed.

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